Interfacing Basler Cameras with ROS 2

The Application Note provides an example of how to interface Basler cameras with an open source Robot Operating System (ROS 2). The exemplary installation instructions relate to a Linux x86_64 operating system and to the pylon-ros2-camera driver package that serves as middleware.

ROS 2 is an all open source framework of software libraries and tools that support the building of various robot applications.

Installation of the following software is considered:

• Operating system (a Linux x86_64 distribution as an example)
• Basler pylon Camera Software Suite for Linux x86_64 (as an example)
• ROS 2 Robot Operating System (ROS 2 Galactic Geochelone is used as an example)
• pylon-ros2-camera driver package.